Series: Potential Natural Vegetation of Eastern Africa

The potential natural vegetation map of eastern Africa (Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Malawi, Zambia) is accompanied by a 11 volume series that documents the floristic, physiognomic and other characteristics of the different vegetation types, lists the woody species occurring in each vegetation type, and documents the making of the map.

Volume 1 is an atlas with the potential natural vegetation map of eastern Africa at a scale of 1:1 million. The volume furthermore introduces the concept of potential natural vegetation and presents an overview of different application domains of the Vegetationmap4africa map.

Download: Volume 1 (Note that this is a very large file. The document has therefore been divided into smaller pdf files that can be downloaded separately)

A description of the forest potential natural vegetation types, in­cluding lists of the "useful tree species" that are expected to natural­ly occur in each vegetation type - and therefore also expected to be adapted to the environmental conditions in areas where those vegetation types occur.

A description of the Woodland and Wooded grassland potential natural vegetation types, also in­cluding lists of the "useful tree species" that are expected to natural­ly occur in each woodland vegetation type - and therefore also expected to be adapted to the environmental conditions where the vegetation types are depicted to occur on the map.

Download: Volume 3 (Note that this is a very large file. The document has therefore been divided into smaller pdf files that can be downloaded separately: Volume 3a, Volume 3b and Volume 3c)

A description of the bushland and ticket potential natural vegetation types, also in­cluding lists of the "useful tree species" that are expected to natural­ly occur in each vegetation type - and therefore also expected to be adapted to the environmental conditions where the vegetation types are depicted to occur on the map.

A description of the other potential natural vegetation types, also in­cluding lists of the "useful tree species" that are expected to natural­ly occur in each vegetation type - and therefore also expected to be adapted to the environmental conditions where the vegetation types are depicted to occur on the map.

An illustration of the use of the map to assess the effects of climate change on the future vegetation distribution patterns in the region and two important agroforestry species (Prunus Africana and Warburgia Ugandensis).